The most famous woman painter of the 17th century, Artemisia Gentileschi worked in Rome, Florence, Venice, and Naples. Gentileschi painted this impressive full-scale depiction of Bathsheba at her bath circa 1637 at the height of her maturity. The painting exemplifies the genre for which Artemisia is best known today, history paintings featuring female protagonists.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/bathsheba-at-her-bath-1640s-artemisia-gentileschi.html

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With its procession of diseases, political collapse and conflict, including one of Europe's deadliest wars, the 1600s were "a truly terrible time to be human", writes Tom Hale. To make matters worse, the weather was also abysmal....

https://www.iflscience.com/the-17th-century-was-a-truly-terrible-time-to-be-a-human-63776

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"W. Laud, A.B.Cant. was a great lover of Catts, He was presented with some Cyprus-catts, i.e. our Tabby-catts, which were sold, at first for 5 pounds a piece: this was about 1637, or 1638. ... I do well remember that the common English Catt, which was white with some blewish piednesse: sc. a gallipot blew. The race or breed of them is now almost lost."
John Aubrey
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